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Mark Widdowson
Mark is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional analyst, and a UKCP and European Association for Psychotherapy registered psychotherapist.
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Mark A. Graber
University System of Maryland Regents Professor of Law, University of Maryland
Professor Graber held a faculty position in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1993 to 2007 and taught at the University of Maryland School of Law as an adjunct professor beginning in the fall of 2002. In 2004, he was appointed Professor of Government and Law at Maryland Carey Law, a title he held until May 1, 2015, at which time he received an appointment as the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism. In 2016, he was named Regents Professor, one of only seven Regents Professors in the history of the University System of Maryland and the only Regents Professor on the UMB campus. He served as associate dean for research and faculty development from 2010 to 2013. He has also been one of the organizers of the annual Constitutional Law "Schmooze," which attracts scholars from across the country to the law school.
Professor Graber is recognized as one of the leading scholars in the country on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (Oxford 2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge, 2006), and co-editor (with Keith Whittington and Howard Gillman) of American Constitutionalism: Structures and Powers and American Constitutionalism: Rights and Powers, both also from Oxford University Press, and co-editor with Mark Tushnet and Sandy Levinson of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis (Oxford 2018). His most recent book is Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (Kansas, 2023).
Professor Graber is also the author of over 100 articles, including "The Non-Majoritarian Problem: Legislative Deference to the Judiciary" in Studies in American Political Development, "Naked Land Transfers and American Constitutional Development," published in the Vanderbilt Law Review and "Resolving Political Questions into Judicial Questions: Tocqueville’s Aphorism Revisited," published by Constitutional Commentary.
He has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Yale Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Oregon School of Law, and Simon Reichman University.
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Mark Allan Jackson
Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University
Dr. Jackson teaches courses on American Literature, Popular Culture, Folklore, and American Song. He published Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie through the University Press of Mississippi in 2007. In addition, he compiled, edited, and produced several CDs through West Virginia University Press, including Coal Digging Blues: Songs of West Virginia Miners.
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Mark M. Lambert
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Bioethics, Des Moines University
Dr. Lambert is Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Bioethics at Des Moines University, where he teaches the medical ethics curriculum in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School where he focused on religion and medicine. Dr. Lambert’s teaching and research has crossed the traditional boundaries of bioethics, indigenous studies, the history of medicine and religious studies. Focusing on leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and its modern history in the United States, especially Hawai’i, Dr. Lambert studies the impact of stigmatizing diseases—HIV/AIDS, mental illness and neglected tropical diseases—upon already marginalized communities. Having grown up in Kirksville, MO, Dr. Lambert is very familiar with osteopathic medicine and is also researching the historical development of osteopathy.
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Mark P Jones
Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies & Baker Institute Political Science Fellow, Rice University
Mark P. Jones, Ph.D., is the fellow in political science at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. Jones also leads the Baker Institute's Argentina Program and helps direct the Presidential Elections Program as well as serves as the faculty director of Rice’s Master of Global Affairs program.
Jones has received substantial financial support for his research, including grants from the United States National Science Foundation. His research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Politics, as well as in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others. He is a frequent contributor to national and Texas media outlets, and his research on the Texas Legislature has been widely cited in the media as well as by numerous political campaigns.
Jones regularly advises U.S. government institutions on economic and political affairs in Argentina and has conducted research on public policy issues in Latin America and Texas for numerous international, national and local organizations. He is a frequent commentator in local, state, national and international media on government, politics and public policy. Jones received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree from Tulane University.
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Mark P. Witton
Research Fellow in Palaeontology, University of Portsmouth
I'm a palaeontological author, artist and researcher based on the south coast of the UK and affiliated with the University of Portsmouth. I'm best known for my research on pterosaurs and, more recently, my contributions to palaeoart - the evidence-led restoration of extinct organisms in drawings, paintings, sculpture and film.
My background is based more in scientific research than writing and artistry. I obtained my PhD from the University of Portsmouth in 2008 after three years of studying pterosaurs, the flying reptiles contemporaneous with non-avian dinosaurs. I remain active in pterosaur research, but since completing my thesis I've found myself employed more as an artist and consultant on the life appearance of extinct animals than as a traditional academic. My career has thus shifted focus to reconstructing extinct animals, and I now spend more of my time considering the history, methods and technical details of this topic than flying reptiles. I've been lucky to impart some of this knowledge to major media clients, with my creature designs and input being used by the BBC, National Geographic, Royal Mail and the Royal Mint. Alongside my papers, books and book chapters on palaeoart, I also post regularly about palaeoart topics at my blog. My artwork has been displayed around the world in venues such as the Natural History Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Yale Peabody Museum and London's South Bank.
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Marlee Bunch
Staff K-12 Initiatives, Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
My name is Dr. Marlee Bunch. I am an educator, author, researcher, and lifelong learner. My research examines the oral histories of Black female educators in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who taught between 1954-1971, and the implications that integration had on their lives and careers. I have two forthcoming publications on university presses celebrating the voices and histories of these women.
I received my doctoral degree from the University of Illinois in 2022 in Education/Policy/Organizational Leadership. Additionally, I have a Masters in Education (MEd), a Masters in Gifted Education (MS), a Bachelors in English, a certification in Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, and a certification in ESL (English as a Second Language).
I have been an educator for 17+ years, and am the founder of the Unlearning the Hush teaching framework. You can learn more about my work at https://www.unlearningthehush.com/
or https://www.drmarleebunch.com/
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Marlene Radl
PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Universität Wien
Marlene Radl (MA, University of Vienna) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She holds a MA in political science and a bachelor’s degree in developmental studies as well as in economics. Through the OeAD Marietta Blau Grant, she is currently completing a research stay at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana.
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Marnie Badham
Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
With a 25 year history of art and justice practice in both Canada and Australia, Marnie’s research sits at the intersection of socially-engaged art practice, participatory methodologies and the politics of cultural measurement Through aesthetic forms of encounter and exchange and a focus on relational ethics, Marnie’s practice brings together disparate groups of people (artists, communities, industry, local government) in dialogue to examine and affect local issues. Marnie is Associate Professor at the School of Art, RMIT University.
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Marshall Eakin
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Marshall Eakin is a historian of Latin America specializing in the history of Brazil. Although his work spans all of Brazilian history, his major publications have concentrated on the processes of nationalism and nation-building, economic and business history, and industrialization—primarily in the twentieth century.
His first book, British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 (Duke, 1989), traces the history of the most successful foreign enterprise in 19th- and 20th-century Brazil. Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Palgrave, 2001) examines the industrialization of the second-largest industrial center in Brazil.
Much of his work addresses audiences beyond the academy. This work includes Brazil: The Once and Future Country (St. Martin’s, 1997), a one-volume introduction to Brazil for beginners and two video courses with the Great Courses, The Conquest of the Americas and The Americas in a Revolutionary Era. His more recent book is The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Eakin’s latest book project is “Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil” to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
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Marta Casla Soler
Profesora del dpto. Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Marta González
Professor Gonzalez works in the area of urban computing, with a focus on the intersections of people with the built environment and their social networks. Her team designs urban mobility solutions and to enable the sustainable development of smart cities. Prof. González has introduced new tools into transportation research and is a leader in the emergent field of urban computing.
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Marta Miret
Profesora de Psicología Médica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Marta es Licenciada en Psicología, Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural y Doctora en Psicología Clínica y de la Salud. Se formó en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Boston University (Estados Unidos) y Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). Actualmente es profesora del Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro Colaborador de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, e investigadora adscrita al Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). Es la secretaria académica del Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, vocal del subcomité de ética de la Facultad de Medicina, presidenta de la comisión de segundo curso del grado en Medicina y coordinadora académica del programa Erasmus.
Es investigadora principal de varios proyectos europeos y nacionales. Su campo de investigación es la epidemiología de los trastornos mentales, los trastornos afectivos, la conducta suicida y la relación entre el estado de salud, el bienestar subjetivo y la soledad. He publicado numerosos artículos científicos en revistas internacionales, participado en numeroso congresos nacionales e internacionales y dirigido seis tesis doctorales.
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Marta Pachocka
Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Warsaw School of Economics
Dr. Marta Pachocka is the Head of the Migration Policies Research Unit at the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) of the University of Warsaw, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, and the Institute of International Studies of the Collegium of Socio-Economics of SGH Warsaw School of Economics. She received her Ph.D. in economics in 2013, but her academic profile is truly interdisciplinary, also including political science and migration studies. She has considerable experience as both a team leader and member in implementing cross-sector and multi-stakeholder projects co-funded by the National Science Centre, National Bank of Poland, Capital City of Warsaw, various ministries, EU Programmes (Horizon 2020, Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus+, Creative Europe), and others. She is on the Board of the PECSA and the Research Committee RC46 ‘Migration and Citizenship’ of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). She supports the European Commission Representation in Poland as an EU expert member of the Team Europe network. She is also a member of the International Steering Committee of the Metropolis Project, focused on international migration and migration policies. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies of the Sciences.
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Marta Torre-Schaub
Directrice de recherche CNRS, juriste, spécialiste du changement climatique et du droit de l’environnement et la santé, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Marta Torre-Schaub est juriste, docteur en droit, spécialiste de droit de l’environnement et du changement climatique. Elle est directrice de recherche au CNRS. Elle exerce ses fonctions à l’ISJPS (Institut des sciences juridique et philosophiques de la Sorbonne). Elle co-dirige l’axe environnement de l'institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne. Elle est expert nommée à l’Agence nationale de la sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail sur les produits phytosanitaires et les risques. Elle dirige depuis 2018 le GDR du CNRS CLIMALEX.
Elle est fondatrice du réseau de chercheurs « Droit et changement climatique » qu’elle dirige et anime. Elle a été boursière Fulbright à New York University en 2004 et Fellow Researcher dans le Global Program of Research de la même université en 2005.
Elle est auteur de nombreux articles et rapports ainsi que d’un certain nombre d’ouvrages dont : "La justice climatique, aspects juridiques" en cours de rédaction aux éditions de la Fondation Léopold Mayer et "Justice climatique : les recours en justice", aux éditions du CNRS 2019, ainsi que « Essai sur la construction juridique de la catégorie de marché », publié chez LGDJ en 2002, qui a obtenu le prix de thèse Dupin Aîné de la Chancellerie des Universités ; « Droit et climat », dossier scientifique, Cahiers de droit, sciences et technologies, CNRS, 2008 ; (co-dir) « La mondialisation des concepts en droit de l’environnement », Paris, LGDJ, 2009 ; (dir) « Le Bien-être et le droit », Publications de la Sorbonne 2016 ; « L’essentiel des grands arrêts de la jurisprudence en droit de l’environnement », Paris, Gualino, LGDJ, 2017 ; « Bilan et perspectives de l’Accord de Paris », Paris, IRJS, 2017.
Elle pilote actuellement plusieurs programmes de recherches : Les dynamiques du contentieux climatique, usages et mobilisations du droit, financé par la Mission droit et justice, et Climate Change Law, Green Pathways to Transition avec Columbia University à New York.
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Marta Vicente-Crespo
Program Manager, CARTA, African Population and Health Research Center
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Marta Zboralska
Bowra Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Marta Zboralska is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art and Bowra Junior Research Fellow at Wadham College.
Her current research project, Art After Witold Gombrowicz, maps responses to the Polish writer across the field of visual art. Demonstrating the author’s wide-ranging, transnational influence on artists – which has thus far escaped recognition – the project uses art-historical methodologies to study how Gombrowicz’s prose has been transformed into a variety of materials and mediums, traversing geographical contexts.
Marta completed her PhD at UCL in 2020, with a thesis titled The Art of Being Together: Inside the Studio of Henryk Stażewski and Edward Krasiński. The final chapter of her doctorate won the Association for Women in Slavic Studies 2020 Graduate Essay Prize. She was an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in 2017, and Project Assistant on the Getty Foundation-funded initiative Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History in 2019-20. In 2022, her Art Journal article 'Living Color: Henryk Stażewski’s Interior Models' was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize. Her latest article, ‘Henryk Stażewski’s Art in America’, was published in the Spring 2023 issue of Archives of American Art Journal.
Before commencing her fellowship, Marta lectured at Oxford's Department of History of Art, UCL, and the University of Essex.
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Marta-Marika Urbanik
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
I am an urban ethnographer, specializing in gangs, neighbourhood redevelopment, and inner-city policing in the Canadian context. My research interests include issues pertaining to harm reduction, neighbourhood violence, gangs, neighbourhood revitalization, and police-community relations (including police misconduct).
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Mårten Hammarlund
PhD candidate of Psychology, Stockholm University
I am a licensed clinical psychologist, licensed child psychotherapist (Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare), and PhD candidate within a project that is lead by prof. Pehr Granqvist and postdoc Tommie Forslund. My research mainly regards contextual risk factors among mothers with intellectual disability or ADHD, in relation to various parenting capacities (e.g., parental mentalizing, interpretation of children's emotional signals), and child socioemotional development (attachment). I also teach attachment theory, mentalization theory, and developmental psychopathology on various courses on the clinical psychology/psychotherapy programs, as well as on the master program in psychology.
Beyond the field of attachment research, I also have a strong interest in developmental psychology more generally. My main interests concern the developmental roots of intersubjectivity and social learning, as well as developmentally informed clinical interventions for children and their families. I am a member of an international group of researchers and clinicians who work with Parental Embodied Mentalizing (a method for assessing automatic mentalizing in parents of infants), as well as of the International Relations Committe of APA Division 39 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. I am also engaged in questions relating to child welfare, and applications of developmental theory in a wider societal context.
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Marten Risius
Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland School of Business. My work focuses on issues regarding online engagement and the digital society like online extremism, disinformation, doxing, privacy, and blockchain technologies. I am an ARC DECRA fellow as well as the recipient of the Association of Information Systems and VHB Early Career Awards.
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Martha Geiger
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Warwick
I am currently in the final year of my PhD in Sociology. My research broadly explores equine (horses, donkeys and mules) labour relations and protection in sub-Saharan Africa.
Martha has gained valuable research, project management, and leadership experience in Canada, UK, Ethiopia, South Africa and Botswana. She previously worked as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol where she led a study in Ethiopia investigating the socio-economic dimensions of the lives of working animals.
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Martha O'Hagan Luff
Associate Professor, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
Martha O'Hagan Luff is an Assistant Professor of Finance in Trinity College Dublin, and the Director of the MSc in Law and Finance. She holds a BA in Economics, an MSc in Finance and a PhD in International Finance from Trinity College. Her research interests are in the areas of Home Bias in Equity Investments, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Finance.
She has published articles in many journals including the International Business Review, International Journal of Finance and Economics and Small Business Economics. Prior to completing her PhD she worked in Investment Banking in London and Dublin, for Bank of America, Credit Suisse First Boston and Bank of Ireland Global Markets. Her area of specialisation was derivatives and financial engineering.
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Martijn Jeroen van der Linden
Professor of Practice in New Finance, Hague University of Applied Sciences
Van der Linden is a Professor of Practice in New Finance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and obtained his Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology in 2022. In his research, he developed design guidelines for the monetary and financial system in the digital age.
Currently, his research focuses on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, deposit banks, cryptocurrencies, financial instability, and the liberalization and re-regulation of banking.
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Martin Zimmer
Professor of mangrove ecology, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
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Martin Andresen
Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
Martin A. Andresen is a professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He is also an Affiliated Scholar in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University, a Member of the Crime and Place Working Group in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University, a Member of the Space, Place, and Crime Working Group in the European Society of Criminology, and an editorial board member for: Journal of Criminal Justice; International Criminal Justice Review; Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society; and Methodological Innovations.
Martin A. Andresen's research areas are in spatial crime analysis, crime and place, geography of crime, and applied spatial statistics and geographical information analysis. Within these research areas, he has published 5 books, 3 edited volumes, and more than 150 refereed journal articles and contributions to edited volumes.
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Martin Archer
Space Plasma Physicist, Queen Mary University of London
Dr Martin Archer is a Space Physicist at Queen Mary University of London (and Imperial College London). Martin became a published scientist whilst still an undergraduate, working on the Cluster space mission. It is this work which has inspired his PhD research on structures and waves in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
In addition to his research, Martin is determined to come up with fresh perspectives on how to communicate his love of science, especially to young audiences, and has worked on a number of exciting and unique projects including his DJ Physics shows, the Droppin’ Science Podcast, WiiJing and appearances at numerous science festivals and schools.
You’ll regularly see Martin on television both in the UK and internationally discussing the latest physics news, explaining scientific concepts and championing the importance of engaging the public with science. In addition to this Martin has featured on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the Guardian Science Weekly podcast and has written numerous science pieces and been profiled by a number of publications including The Guardian, The Times and MSN.
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Martin Bortz
I am a current PhD student at the University of Melbourne. I am studying the role of knowledge in public policy, and the way in which that shapes power dynamics between different political actors.
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Martin Brook
Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland
Chartered Geologist (CGeol) and director of the master of engineering geology degree at the University of Auckland. PhD from the University of Dundee and MEng from University of New South Wales. Prior to joining the University of Auckland, I worked for a large multi-national consultancy in Brisbane, and worked on engineering geological issues across Australia-Pacific and the Middle East. Part of the landslide emergency response team for the Gisborne state of emergency in November 2021. Published >80 journal articles including many on landslide investigations and satellite monitoring, particularly on urban landslides in the North Island, including Auckland and Gisborne. Have received funding from EQC, Royal Society and MBIE for environmental geology research, supervised >50 research students to completion.
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Martin Brown
Head of School of Policy and Practice, Co-Director: EQI The Centre for Evaluation Quality and Inspection, DCU Institute of Education, Ireland, Dublin City University
Martin Brown is Head of School of Policy and Practice at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University (DCU) and co-director at EQI – The Centre for Evaluation Quality and Inspection, also based at DCU. He is an Expert Evaluator to the European Commission, advisor to the Teaching Council of Ireland and an adjunct faculty member of the Centre for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment at the University of Illinois. He has planned and led evaluations in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Europe and the Middle East; working for, among others, the European Commission, Dept. of Education and Skills (Ireland), the State Education Development Agency (Latvia) and the United Arab Emirates government.
He has received two all Island SCOTENS Awards (2018/2020) for outstanding research in Teacher Education and has received the President of DCU Gold medals for Research Impact and Teaching and Learning (2020). In 2021 he also received the President of DCU Gold medal for Civic Engagement.
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Martin Connors
Professor of Space Science and Physics, Athabasca University
Martin Connors is Professor of Space Science and Physics at Athabasca University, also affiliated with Western University (Ontario). He runs the Athabasca University Observatories, using the dark night skies of northern Alberta to study the aurora and other sky phenomena, and also geo-electromagnetic networks. The latter monitor space weather through magnetic and electric fields using novel instrumentation, some developed in-house. Connors has also developed innovative techniques in distance education. He received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, in theoretical and space physics. For fun he studies languages and reads about history. His book "Invisible Solar System" will be published in 2024.
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Martin Conway
My research and publications have been driven by a number of overlapping interests in European history from roughly the 1930s to the 1960s.
One central element of that interest has been the history of Belgium, which has been much overlooked in the historiography of the twentieth century, but which provides a fascinating example of the interplay of factors of class, of ideology and of linguistic identity. I have published two books on Belgium, most recently (in 2012) The Sorrows of Belgium, and am continuing with research on its post-1945 history, most notably the so-called question royale and the history of the working class.
My other interests are broader and more comparative. I have been the editor of a number of collaborative volumes, including ones on political exiles during the Second World War, on Catholic politics, on political legitimacy in mid-twentieth century Europe, on democracy, on Europeanisation, and on violence.
All of these, though diverse in subject manner, have been primarily concerned with the interface between the social and the political. In particular, I have been concerned to explore what made (and un-made) political stability in Europe across the upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s and into the post-war period, and I am currentlky writing a book about how democracy was understood and practised in Western Europe from the Second World War to the end of the 1960s. I am also involved in a number of collaborative research projects, involving historians across Europe, and am the editor of The English Historical Review.
I teach widely on the history of this period, and have supervised a number of doctorates: on religion in France, on inter-war socialism, on aspects of Belgian history, on Catholic politics and intellectual trends. I should be happy to hear from prospective graduate students interested in working in fields relevant to my interests.
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Martin Doherty
Associate Professor in Psychology, University of East Anglia
Dr Martin Doherty joined UEA as an Associate Professor in Psychology in 2013. He studied physics for a year at Bristol before deciding Psychology was the way forward. After an MSc in Cognitive Science at Warwick, he took his PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Sussex, supervised by Professor Josef Perner. After postdoctoral work in Japan and Stirling, he worked as a lecturer in Stirling. His research interests include theory of mind, visual illusions, and children’s understanding of eye gaze.
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Martin Hewison
Professor of Molecular Endocrinology, University of Birmingham
Professor Hewison’s work focuses on different facets of vitamin D physiology, including classical skeletal effects and non-classical extra-skeletal effects. He has a particular interest in the interaction between vitamin D and the immune system, where antigen-presenting cells such as dendritic cells and macrophages synthesize active vitamin D (calcitriol) and also express the nuclear receptor for calcitriol (VDR). Vitamin D can therefore act as an endogenous regulator of both innate and adaptive immunity by enhancing antibacterial activity, and modulating antigen presentation and T lymphocyte function. Crucially these responses are highly dependent on the bioavailability of vitamin D, and Professor Hewison has hypothesized that immune function is influenced by vitamin D status in humans. His group is using a variety of models to test this hypothesis including basic molecular and cell analyses, and vitamin D supplementation trials in human cohorts. A key objective of his work is to increase awareness of vitamin D-deficiency in the UK population.
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Martin Hurcombe
I am principally interested in the relationship between representations of conflict and politics in early twentieth-century France. I am the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War next Door, 1936-1945. I am also interested in the relationship between political commitment and utopianism and the memory of the First World War in twentieth-century French culture. I am a member of the executive committee of the Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS), based at the Universities of Bristol, Swansea and Westminster, and am one of the editors of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. In addition to this, I also have an interest in French crime fiction, particularly the novels of Sébastien Japrisot.
My teaching interests are French literature, culture, and history of the early twentieth century. I also teach general history and literature courses in Year 1 and final-year language. I am unit convenor for two final-year units: Representations of War, which studies the depiction of war in the twentieth-century French novel and cinema, and Challenging the Republic, which examines a variety of political movements that have contested the form of the French Republic since the 1920s. In the 2nd year I convene The Third Republic, which studies the social and political history of France from 1870 to 1940, and co-teach Modern French Narrative, a unit examining French fiction from the 1920s to the present. I also teach courses on war and culture at postgraduate level and am co-supervising two M.Litt/PhD theses: James McFarthing, ‘Utopian Theory and the Science Fiction of Jules Verne’ and Claire Thomas, ‘Ungaretti, giornalista’. I am also currently Deputy Head of School Teaching and Learning.
I would particularly welcome research students working on 20th-century cultural representations of conflict and/or political engagement and cultural politics in France.
My students can consult me in my office at the following time during term times:Thursday 10-11am and 3-4pm.
Biography
I studied French and Italian at the University of Exeter where I also later completed a PGCE (after a year working at the Université de Rennes II). I spent several years in secondary education pretending that I didn't miss academia until coming to Bristol as a PhD student. I completed my doctoral thesis, 'Forming the Modern Mind: A Reappraisal of the French Combat Novel of World War One', in 2000 under the supervision of Gino Raymond. That same year, I became a lecturer here in the Department of French.
I am one of the editors of the Journal of War and Culture Studies and an executive member of the Group for War and Culture Studies, currently based at the University of Westminster.
I am a keen runner and cyclist and an occasional triathlete.
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Martin Jakobsson
Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Stockholm University
After completing a PhD in 2000 at the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Martin Jakobsson joined the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA, for a research scientist position. The PhD thesis was titled "Mapping the Arctic Ocean: Bathymetry and Pleistocene Paleoceanography".
Martin returned to Stockholm University from USA in April 2004 for an Associate Professor position at the Department of Geological Sciences. From November 2004, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him five years to devote full time for research as an Academy Fellow through support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He was promoted to full Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics at Stockholm University in September 2009 and has served as Head of the Department of Geological Sciences since 2012.
His current research interests include the Arctic Ocean glacial history, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, submarine glacial landforms and geophysical seafloor mapping using acoustic methods. Martin has spent more than one year of ship time onboard open ocean research vessels and he has been Co-Chief Scientist on eight international ocean expeditions. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Class V for Geoscience elected Martin as a member in 2012, and he is acting as the 1st Vice President of the Academy since 2016.
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